Melbourne, May 25 : A man blew his manhood apart while trying to impress his friends by stuffing a loaded gun into his trouser pocket and pulling the trigger, thinking the safety catch was on.

Lukas Neuhardt, in a bid to score points with his friends, tucked the gun into his trouser pocket and pulled the trigger.

The embarrassed 27-year-old apparently told ambulance officers that he had been shot at by a masked mugger during a robbery.

But cops reportedly cast a shadow of doubt over his explanation after finding that the gunshot had miraculously left his trousers untouched.

"Instead there was a charred hole in his pocket so either it was the shot of the century or he did it himself," The Daily Telegraph quoted a police source as telling The Sun.

Neuhardt later had his genitals stitched by surgeons but has been left facing up to three years in prison for breaching Germany''s tough new anti-gun laws. (ANI)